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Compromise Tax Elike Seen as Result of 'Fatherless' Transactions Levy
HINT MARIANO
ASKED FOR LOT
To GET LITTLE
Reaction Against Huge
Revenue Bill Sends
' Leaders Scurrying
There is a suspicion afloat at the
statehouse that Gov E W Mar-
land ls administration is following
the tactic a of a lawyer who asks
for $50000 in a damage suit in the
hope of getting $1000
The Marland tax chemists don't
expect to get through the Legisla-
ture that $20000000 Falstaffian
' brew they concocted under the
name of a gross sales tax but which
snore properly should be called a
transactions tax
But they do hope to get out of it
the same old sales tax that now
exists in a bigger mixing bowl and
with new flavors added to make it
bring in several millions a year more
than at present
Rush to Deny Authorship
The reaction to the big transac-
tions tax proposal was swift and
unmistakable and the administra-
tion men started falling over each
other in their eagerness to reach the
printed pages with denials of au-
thorship Gov Marland was among
the first
They tried to lay it all on a com-
mittee of House school bloc legisla-
tors including B J 'Frew Floyd
Barrington and Carl Dees
Aa a matter of fact both Gov
Marland and Chairman H L Mc-
- Cracken had a big hand in it
McCracken Added Bit
The school bloc members went to
' the governor some time ago and told
him their belief that more money
would be necessary for common
- schools next year They and the
governor sat down and worked out
the plan of expanding the sales tax
They weren't exact on details but
they worked out the general plan
Then Gov Marland sent them to
Chairman McCracken the No 1
tax man of the administration to
fill in the details McCracken had
been admiring from afar the In-
diana gross income tax so when he
drafted the bill he threw in some
Ideas he had absorbed from it
The resultant bill with its sliding
percentages of taxes its levies on
business turnover its tax on natural
resources and its inclusion of even
the barber and the laundryman
looked BO bad on paper when news-
papers explained it that the admin-
istration's legislative leaders rushed
down to ask who had gone crazy
Still Seeking Author
The three school bloc members
themselves decided they didn't
- want the responsibility of intro-
! ducing it and at the last account-
ing an author still was being
sought
Perhaps the bill never will hit
the hopper as originally drawn but
will be considerably modified by
the Tax Commission assistants who
- are doing the actual drafting
This probably accounts for the
fact that the Oklahoma Retail
Merchants Association and other
protective business groups have
not launched a howl to high heav-
en They are confident that the
: 'bill as first drawn doesn't have a
chance and they intend to hold
- their fire until they see what modi-
- fications are made
Hits Small Merchants
"It's too easy to figure out that
-all the load of this bill would fall
on the small merchant" explained
E W Smartt secretary-manager
- of the atate retailers
"The tax would be levied against
- the merchant instead ol directly
: on the consumer as under the pre'-
ent mill system
' "The big merchants fewer in
number and well organized would
easily get together and agree not
- to engage in any price-cutting such
: as would force them to absorb the
- tax Once they had their agree
ment they would pass all of the
: tax along to the consumer without
- trouble
- Pass Tax Along
- "At the same time the manufac-
- turers and wholesalers also well
: organized would be passing the tax
- along 'to the retailer
- "But it's a different story when
7 you come to the little independent
retailers This bill would mean
the annihilation of them
"One merchant would try to pass
the tax along to the consumer but
some merchant down the street
- would try to absorb it and pretty
soon all would be forced to absorb
: it There are Just too many of
them to get into an effective agree
ment
'In the end that would mean just
- one more advantage the big mer-
: chant would have over the little
one'
EP
DAVIS IS CHOSEN
HEALTH INSPECTOR
Fourth Man Added to City Depart
nient Start by Baker
ONao
Appointment of Tom Davis as a
special health inspector was an
nounced today by City Manager
F 0 Baker Dr Walter R Miles
city health director said Mr Davis
would inspect city restaurants and
make sure that all eating utensils
were properly sterilized
The department now will have
four men two of whom will be
engaged in restaurant inspection A
third man inspects meats and the
other inspector inspects weights
and measures
NATIONAL PROBLEMS UP
C of C Committee to Hear C S
C of C Directors
The Chamber of Commerce na-
tional affairs committee will meet
with the board of directors Thurs-
day noon to hear J W Evans vice-
president of the IL S Chamber
Mr Evan' and J P Owen di-
rectors of the natAonal chamber
will discuss national problems in
which the chamber is interested
said T E Braniff chairman of the
national affairs committee
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Read and the News Want Ado--Phone 7-1551
State Departments Ask
Big Increases in Budgets
- Departments of state government are asking $7304400 for the next
biennium of which 13590900 is sought the first year and $3713500 the
second
The requests by departments:
Department Budget ' Asked Next Asked for
This Year Year 1938-89
Executive $104310 6110755 1110625
Lieut Gov 4150 4000 400C
Criminal Court 26212 24900 2365C
State Bar 23550 27900 2790(
District Court 155000 255000 25500C
Board of Affairs i‘ 62100 72400 72400
Capitol Building 89650 209650 137450
Department Labor 38840 38940 38940
Historical Society 26600 ' 27700 ' 27700
Optometry Board 1250 1250 1250
Election Board 244500 48500 264500
State Library 9960 18830 16330
State Reporter 8530 10230 10230
State Examiner 83937 103287 103287
Soldier Relief 110450 110450 110450
Crime Bureau 64900 71400 138400
Secretary State 24562 27212 26212
Corporation Commission 206900 217460 217460
Okla Library Commission 23160 29865 28365
Confederate Pensions 305100 305100 ' 305100
Blind 11965 112765 12765
Fire Marshal 20800 23275 23275
Insurance Commission 23705 25480 25580
Insurance Board 11150 24500 24500
Banking Department 61000 66266 66716
Health Department 170950 377300 374800
School Land Commission 112790 170990 170990
Industrial Commission 64680 70630 70630
Planning Board 37500 37500 37500
Securities Commission 9220 14750 19250
Attorney General 65600 56950 56950
Commission Charities 7150 69550 69950
State Superintendent 48750 117150 113900
Court Tax Review (unchanged at $1500)
State Treasurer-396295 (request 31417138 including $1250000 approxl
Corporation Commission 206900
Okla Library Commission 23160
Confederate Pensions 305100
Blind 11965
Fire Marshal 20800
Insurance Commission 23705
Insurance Board 11150
Banking Department 61000
Health Department 170950
School Land Commission 112790
Industrial Commission 64680
Planning Board 37500
Securities Commission 9220
Attorney General 55600
Commission Charities 7150
State Superintendent 48750
Court Tax Review (unchanged at
State Treasurer-396295 (request 31417138
mately for funding bond payments)
State Auditor 36295
Conservation Commission 100000
Board Education 9500
Vocational Education 50000
Adjutant General 158806
Board Agriculture 135105
Supreme Court 121200
Supreme Court Clerk 16450
Mine Inspector 16575
Forest Commission 10000
Although Rep Murray Gibbons of
Oklahoma County chief sponsor of
the measure offered to remove all
fees from the bill and pointed out
that the measure would be admin
istered by a commissioner already
holding office in the capitol a re-
bellious House coalition slew the
measure without quarter
Had Million In Sight
The law faced heavy going from
the start and in three sessions in
the House committee of the whole
was subject to terrific sniping at-
tacks Three times the measure
survived attempts to strike it from
the calendar but finally went down
in a melee of factional strife
The bill originally written would
require each driver to obtain a li-
cense The head of the family would
have paid a fee of $I each other
member of the family would have
paid 25 cents
It was estimated this would bring
In revenue of $1000000 a year which
would have been used to set up a
drivers' license commissioner and a
highway patrol
Compromise Failed
After the measure met heavy fire
the administration volunteered to
place the commissioner under the
title division of the Highway Com-
mission which has a pesonnel of
about 150 persons and a cash surplus
of 8400000
In this manner no new fees would
have been required and no new bu-
reau set up
Members of the farm bloc and the
economy bloc fused however into a
militant minority which finally was
joined by administration lawmakers
who were irked at Rep Gibbons for
his part in killing the drouth relief
bill
The measure was not introduced
in the Senate
It will be re-introduced in the
regular session and a serious attempt
made to write some regulation onto
the statute books to stop the slaugh-
ter on Oklahoma highways
Right to Drive Is a Club
The II states without compulsory
licensing of private automobile op-
erators are fairly well known The
nois Louisiana Mississippi Mis-
souri New Mexico Oklahoma South
Dakota Tennessee Wyoming In
some of these certain cities require
licensing That is true for instance
of Chicago and of most of the larger
cities in Florida Others of the II
states have passed enabling legiala-
tion allowing municipalities to enect
laws on the subject if they see fit
The arguments for rigidly super-
vising licensing of automobile op-
etators I erfairly well known The
appalling total of automobile acci-
dents should be reduced if people
may no longer operate cars who are
habitual drunkards or drug addicts
who do not know the rules of the
mold or are manifestly inept at driv-
ing who have epilepsy or other
paralyzing ailments who are flag-
rant and persistent violators of traf-
fic 'ordinances who are too color
blind to distinguish between traffic
lights or too illiterate to read road
signs In addition the suspension
1
55330
77100
18250
121044
144808
215740
118300
18450
16875
25000
Asked for
1938-89
1110625
4000
23650
27900
255000
72400
137450
38940
27700
1250
264500
10330
10230
103287
110450
68400
26212
217460
28365
305100
12765
23275
25580
24500
66716
374800
170990
70630
37500
19250
56950
89950
113900
156050
77100
18250
121044
144806
207080
114800
16450
16875
25000
35 States Have Drivers' Law
But Bugaboo Beat Oklahoma's
Cry of 'Another Tax on Motorist' and Fear of
Patronage Keeps State Out of Line in
Traffic Safety
Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia now re-
quire operators of private auto to be licensed but the twin
bugaboos of "another tax on the motorist" and "another
commission" laid low the drivers' license law which was
strongly urged by Gov E W Mar land in his call for the
special session of the Legislature
This is a distinct advance in the or the revocation of the right to
last five years in 1931 only 11 states drive would seem to be one of the
and the District had such legisla- most effective ways to deter traffic
tion However some of the 35 states violators
Issue operators' permits without a And the many states with finan-
compulsory examination In others cial responsibility laws for motorist3
the examination is perfunctory In can hardly enforce them adequately
still others the license is good for a uniem the right to drive a car is at
lifetime or is renewed periodically stake
without additional examination And
some states which issue licenses Rural Sections Most Hostile
make no provision for revoking The opposition to compulsory driv-
them for cause era' licenses comes largely from
or the revocation of the right to
drive would seem to be one of the
most effective ways to deter traffic
violators
And the many states with finan-
cial responsibility laws for motorist3
can hardly enforce them adequately
unless the right to drive a car Is at
stake
Rural Sections Most Hostile
The opposition to compulsory driv-
ers licenses comes largely from
rural areas Many farmers oppose
limitation on the right of their chil-
dren or farm hands to drive the
farm cars Also atv proposal to
charge a new fee however small al-
ways runs up against opposition
And some automobile dealers may
covertly oppose compulsory licensing
lest it cut down the number of per-
sons who drive In Utah which has
a rigid law reported to be well en-
forced licenses were refused to some
3000 persons amounting to almost
2 per cent of the applicants
Certain states have recognized the
opposition by making operators' li-
censes cost only 25 or 50 cents Oth-
ers allow members of a licensee's
family or his employees to obtain li-
censes free or for only a few cents
Several states lower the age limits
for pupils who drive only to and
from school The usual minimum
age for regular licenses is 16 but in
a few states it is 18 and in a few
others 14
The tendency Is for states which
examine operators to have periodical
examinations of motor vehicles as
DELAYED PAY MAKES
EMPLOYES REGISTER
Bosses Demand Workers Have
Security Numbers
Several hundred applications for
identification numbers in the federal
old-age benefit program were re-
ceived at the postoffice Saturday as
many city and state employers re-
fused to pay workers who do not
have their registration numbers
While the deadline for filing of
applications was Dec 15 the appli-
cation forms will be received here
and numbers issued R H Brown
In charge said
One city employer working more
than 100 men refused to pay his
workers until they had either the
numbers Issued by the Social Se-
curity Board or good proof that an
application for such a number had
been filed
Mr Brown pointed out that un-
employed pe r son I may register
marking "unemployed" in the blank
asking the name of the employe's
present employer
A total of 114814 Identification
numbers have been issued here to
date
CROP REPORTS COMING
Dates Are Announced for Imuance
ad Federal Figures
Dates for Federal agricultural re
ports were announced Saturday by
Kenneth a Flood Federal crops
statistician Drain reports will be
Issued Monday livestock Feb 15
prospective planting of principal
crops except cotton March 19 and
wheat rye and fruit acreage and
condition April 0
TR'S OnA10MA NEWS
STATE WILL ASK Loud Silences Greet Roll Call of Original
U SI PRISON AID Marland Aids as Term Nears Half Mark
Bills to Reform Oklahoma
Penal System Ready for
Legislature
Bills for a complete program of
prison reform in line with recom-
mendations outlihed by Gov E W
Mar land are being prepared and
will be introduced in the present
legislativy session Al Horton board
of affairs member said Saturday
Mr Horton plans to go to Wash-
ington late this month In an effort
to secure PWA aid for the program
The reforms follow the general
plan recommended by Dr Louis N
Robertson president of the prison
industries reorganization adminis-
tration who made an inspection of
the Oklahoma prison system
Plan Receiving Station
"In my opinion it is the most
important need in the handling of
state institutions" said Mr Horton
who also has made an extensive
study of the problem
The plan would establish a cen-
tral receiving station in Oklahoma
City where all persons sentenced to
penal servitude would be sent for
at least 60 days
There a study would be made of
every man woman and child Case
workers and experienced social ser-
vice experts would make a study of
every prtsoner A complete history
of each convicted person would be
made There also would be medical
and mental examinations
Trusty Camps Proposed
From results of this research the
prisoners would be divided Into
three classes
An Oklahoma Alcatraz would be
established at Granite site of the
present reformatory and hardened
criminals would be sent there
A second class of less hardened
law-violators would be sent to Mc-
Alester and a state reformatory for
first termers and lesser violators
would be established at the String-
town sub-prison near Atoka
Establishment of road and forest
camps for trusties a greatly en-
larged personal staff a superin-
tendent of industries and a pro-
bation and parole commission are
other items included in the far-
reaching proposed prison program
STATE CHIEFS
To TAKE OATHS
Supreme and Criminal Court
Of Appeals Get New
Faces Monday
Two new faces will appear In the
state capitol official lineup Monday
and three officials will begin new
terms of office to follow out the
mandates of the people at the polls
Nov 3
Judge Thurman Hurst of Paw-
nee who gained statewide promin-
ence in his conduct of tha Phil
Kennamer trial will take his place
on the Supreme Court bench suc-
ceeding Chief Justice Edwin R Mc-
Neill Judge Bert B Barefoot of Chick-
asha will take his place on the
bench of the Criminal Court of
Appeals succeeding Presiding Judge
Thomas A Edwards
Judge Wayne Bayless and Judge
Pletcher Riley will start new six-
year terms on the Supreme Court
bench
Osborne Heads Court
Reford Bond will begin a six-year
term on the Corporation Commis-
sion continuing the tenure started
In July 1934 when he was appoint-
ed to fill the unexpired term of
Paul A Walker who resigned
Justice Monroe Osborne will be-
come chief justice of the Supreme
Court in the reorganization with
Wayne Baylem as vice chief justice
Judge James S Davenport will
become presiding judge of the Crim-
inal Court of Appeals
The officers probably will be
sworn in quietly No public oere-
mony had been contemplated Sat-
urday McNelirs Successor Twice
It will be the second time Judge
Hurst has succeeded Judge McNeill
in a Judicial position The first time
was when Mr Hurst was elected
judge of the Pawnee-Tulsa judicial
district in 1930 when Judge McNeill
was elected to the higher bench
Judge Hurst entered the lists
against Judge McNeill in the Dem-
ocratic primary last year and
emerged victorious after a spirited
campaign
Judge McNeill will open a law of-
fice probably -in Ttlitia Judge Ed-
wards will return to private prac-
tice in Cordell
Both courts handed down opinions
Saturday to clear their docketa for
the new personnel and reorganization
ANTI-JINXERS MEET
ONLY ONCE THIS YEAR
That's Because There's But One
Friday the Thirteenth
MMRMIONI0e00
There will be only one business
meeting this year of the Anti-Jinx
Club
The club is a social group limited
to persons who were born on Friday
the 13th and its business meeting
data are set only for Fridays the
13th
The year 1937 has but one such
date Aug 13
Two of the 90 members of the
club will be honored with club birth
anniversary parties Wednesday
night Jan 13 at the Sterling Milk
Co's bungalow 314 N Western-ay
The honorees will be Mrs R C
Oldham 2139 Glenn Ellen and Mrs
Mary Brown Jaclyn 80512 NW
10th-at both 83 years of age
Many Advisers Pushed Cómpletely Out of Adminis-
tration Picture Others Sidetracked in Minor
Posts Far From Favor
KNIFE AWAITS HUGE
STATE BUDGET PLEA
Continued From Page One)
of it is for employment of a gauger
and other help to check operations
of oil wells on Capitol lands
The governor again asks a con-
tingent fund of $2500 for "extraor-
dinary protection of the state"
Under the heading of 'Compensa-
tion and expenses in the detection
and punishment of crime" he asks
an increase of from $10000 to $12-
500
The increase presumably is to
carry on his drive against bootleg
liquor operations It provides him
a total fund of $37500 that can be
used for this purpose
Capitol Upkeep Jumps
The governor also asks enlarge-
ment of the pardon and parole of-
fice by employment of two more
stenographers at $1500 each
Biggest increases asked were for
the capitol building upkeep which
Jumped from $89850 to $209650
next year state Health Depart-
ment from $170950 to $377300
School Land Commission from
$112790 to $170990 Commissioner
of Charities and Corrections from
$7150 to $69550 state school super-
intendent from $48750 to $117150
and Board of Agriculture from
$135105 to $215740
State Treasurer Hubert L Bolen
asked for an increase of $1320000
but approximately $1250000 of this
sum is mandatory for meeting the
yearly payment of 1935 funding
bonds
Conservative Requests
The department of vocational
education asked that its funds be
increased from $50000 this year to
$121044 to expand its work of train-
ing crippled persons for gainful oc-
cupations on the other hand two of the
most controversial departments
which have been under legislative
fire for months submitted comer-
votive requests compared with oth-
er departments
They are the Conversation Com-
mission which asked for $77100
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This Thursday E W Mar land will reach the exact
half-way point of his term as governor
And if the roll is called out yonder—at 23rd-5t and
Lincoln-blvd—many will be the silences as the caller goes
down the list of those who were at the governor's right hand
when he read his inaugural speech
on the south capitol steps seph Matthews Pawhuska Mrs
More than a round dozen of big '
a
political figures who went in with Dillard Clark of Ponc City then
Gov Mar land now are out of the quit
picture entirely An equally large Fred Smells once a Mar land
legislative contact man was moved
group is still in the picture but down to the Highway Department
holding down seats far in the rear
and then out
Five Now Are Foes Victor Wickersham who man-
The Marland aids of that time aged the Marland campaign in
were divided roughly into three
southwestern Oklahoma and was
groups—old and experienced po-
rewarded with the bhief clerkship
litical advisers college brain trust- of the Board of Affairs got the
ers and younger political advisers
skids two months ago to make
All of the five men in the first
group today are political foes of the room for Mrs Pauline Rogers sec-
governor
retary to Drake
Sam Hayes city attorney former Al W Horton vice-chairman of
chief Justice of the State Supreme the Board of Affairs and an old
Court and for 20 years attorney Marland 011 Co roan barely is
for the old Marland Oil Co left hanging on He has been in the
the Marland camp early in that first dog house since his fight with the
year and fought the governor last Young Turks when he ran for Con-
summer in the senatorial race gress last summer
E L Richardson Lawton lasted The latest gossip is that Dr
for a year as a Marland tax chit- Joe Rogers Frederick a friend of
missioner became a follower of Sen Sen Cecil Chamberlin may replace
Josh Lee and was a leading adviser Horton
in the latter's campaign R H Wilson who held a juicy
'Brain Trusters' Leave plum as Oklahoma County tag
Hubert Bolend who advised in agent recently was demoted but
both Marland's congressional and still is in the agency
gubernatorial campaigns broke with J M (Bud) Gentry only last
the governor after he was appointed week was permitted to resign from
state treasurer the state Highway Commission and
John Doolin Alva left the Mar- has the rather uncertain offer ol
land camp before the new had worn the Job of state safety director
off the administration and when the Legislature creates
The two brain trusters Dean Ray- such a job
mond Thomas of the Oklahoma A Young Turks Shelved
and M College and Dr Leonard John Eddleman who filled the
Logan from the University of Olda- post of state director for the Okla-
homa did not break with the gov- homa Emergency Relief Admin
emor But Dean Thomas left the istration hu been languishing and
Tax Commission to go back to the waiting for a new assignment since
classroom and to head the Okla- OERA folded up -
homa Public Welfare Commission The Young Turks still are around
And Dr Logan went back to the but with the exception of Mr
university from his technical Job on Drake they have been shoved into
the state Planning Board inconspicuous corners to make way
Key Swings to Lee for the clique of legislative lead-
Scott Ferris Democratic national era who now advise the governor
committeeman left his post as B S (Cheebie) Graham was
chairman of the state Highway moved from the secretaryship of
Commission only two weeks ago the state Planning Board and into
He couldn't get along with Howard the Oklahoma County tag agency
B (Pete) Drake who throughout
the two years has been the gover-
taking the place from which Mr
nor's most trusted adviser in purely Wilson was demoted
political matters Larson Sits Quiet
Gen W S Key was the gover- Frank Douglass who has moved
nor's first warden at McAlester pen-
around from FE'RA director to a
itentiary and had the governor's Washington job and came back
benediction for the job of state WPA last summer to help the Marland
administrator But their friendship campaign is due to be sidetracked
cooled a year ago and Key was into a district judgeship here
placed in the Lee camp last sum- Ned Milligan still holds his lot
met of secretary of the state Board of
Roy (Wash) Kenny the A and Pharmacy but he is kept out oi
M track coach who succeeded Key sight
at McAlester was fired by the gov- Jess Larson secretary of the
emor two months ago after a spirt School Land Commission also has
with the state Board of Affairs kept his chin in and attended
Campaign Aid Booted strictly to business since the dis-
Three members of the governor's astrous Marland senatorial cam-
first state Board of Education are paign Sam Sorrells of the Plan
no longer there The governor ning Board and Claience Page ol
asked for the resignations of Ches- the Pardon and Parole Board are
ter Westfall Ponca City and Jo- seldom seen in capitol corridors
seph Matthews Pawhuska Mrs
Dillard Clark of Ponca City then
quit
Fred Smells once a Mar land
legislative contact man was moved
down to the Highway Department
and then out
Victor Wickersham who man-
aged the Mar land campaign in
southwestern Oklahoma and was
rewarded with the bhief clerkship
of the Board of Affairs got the
skids two months ago to make
room for Mrs Pauline Rogers sec-
retary to Drake
Al W Horton vice-chairman of
the Board of Affairs and an old
Marland 011 Co roan barely is
hanging on He has been in the
dog house since his fight with the
Young Turks when he ran for Con-
gress last summer
The latest gossip is that Dr
Joe Rogers Frederick a friend of
Sen Cecil Chamberlin may replace
Horton
R H Wilson who held a juicy
plum as Oklahoma County tag
agent recently was demoted but
still is in the agency
J M (Bud) Gentry only last
week was permitted to resign from
the state Highway Commission and
has the rather uncertain offer of
the job of state safety director if
and when the Legislature creates
such a job
Young Turks Shelved
John Eddleman who filled the
post of state director for the Okla-
homa Emergency Relief Admin-
istration has been languishing and
waiting for a new assignment since
OERA folded up -
The Young Turks still are around
but with the exception of Mr
Drake they have been shoved into
Inconspicuous corners to make way
for the clique of legislative lead-
ers who now advise the governor
B S (Cheebie) Graham was
moved from the secretaryship of
the state Planning Board and into
the Oklahoma County tag agency
taking the place from which Mr
Wilson was demoted
Larson Sits Quiet
Frank Douglass who has moved
around from FE'RA director to a
Washington job and came back
last summer to help the Marland
campaign is due to be sidetracked
Into a district judgeship here
Ned Milligan still holds his job
of secretary of the state Board of
Pharmacy but he is kept out of
sight
Jess Larson secretary of the
School Land Commission also has
kept his chin in and attended
strictly to business since the dis-
astrous Marland senatorial cam-
paign Sam Sorrells of the Plan-
ning Board and Claience Page of
the Pardon and Parole Board are
seldom seen In capitol corridors
each year compared with $100000
formerly spent and the state Plan-
ing Board which held its budget to
$37500 the figure for this year
Labor Department Mild
The Department of Labor asked
for an increase of only MOO over
the $38840 it received from the last
Legislature
Part of the big increase asked by
Health Commissioner C M Pearce
is accounted for in a $10000 item
set up for typhoid and diphtheria
tonic! $2500 for laboratory equip-
ment 1115000 for stream pollution
prevention 816800 for the employ-
ment of supervisors for food drugs
and sanitary inspections $130000
for rural sanitation clinics and S17-
700 for revival of the Bureau of
Infancy and Maternity
WhatHomestead
Tax Exemption
Will Mean to You
Reduction in Levy Won't
Start Until Next Year
Other Details Explained
The $1000 homestead tax exemp-
tion bill became law when Gov E
W Marland signed it lut week-end
It does not as so many suppose
bring about an immediate reduction
In your tax bill
The tax bill now due and pay-
able is based on the 1936 valuation
of your property Homestead ex-
emptions begin on your 1937 val-
uation assessment
Your first tax saving will come
when you pay your next year's
taxes
Registration for benefits under
the law will start Monday in the
county assessor's office at the court-
house No applications will be received
by mail although the blanks may
be taken from the office and re-
turned later
Other Important facts about RI
The $1000 exemption b based on
tax valuation not actual value Tax
valuation is about 50 per cent of
real value Thus if you have a
home worth $2000 it is on the tax
rolls at $1000 Next year that $1000
will be exempted and you will pay
no property tax at all
If the real value of your home is
$4000 ha tax value is approximate-
ly $2000 So next year you will pay
taxes on only $1000 valuation
If you obtain your exemption for
next year you will be required to
make application with the county
assessor before April 1 1937 Ap-
plication forms are being prepared
now
A rural homestead cannot exceed
In size 160 acres and improvements
An urban homestead is defined as
the lot or lots on which the home
garage etc actually rest
To obtain the exemption you
must be a citizen of the state re-
side at the home and have record
ownership
Buildings used for commercial
purposes are not exempt but the
keeping of boarders or roomers does
not make the home commercial so
far as exemptions are concerned
The exemption does not extend
to sinking fund levies that is
taxes assessed to retire bonds voted
for construction of roads public
buildings water works etc In
Oklahoma City these account for
about hall of your tax bill
In the event a county assessor
rejects the exemption application
appeal and hearing may be had
before the County ' Equalization
Board and an appeal from that
board to District Court
In the event a home is half
dwelling and half commercial that
part usea strictly for a dwelling is
entitled to the $1000 exemption
A person who fraudulently claims
exemption shall forfeit all right to
an exemption for two years and be
fined from $25 to $200 or impris-
oned for a period Up to six months
or both
Although the law does not ex-
pressly say so it is the intention of
the Legislature that the definition
of an owner shall extend to cases
where a widow and dependent chil-
dren Jointly own a home or sim-
ilar joint ownership within a family
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SUNDAY JANUARY 10 1937
MAT WAIVE RESTRICTIONS
The City Planning Commission
probably will make an exception in
enforcement of the usual required
mental for acceptance of a plat anti
approve the proposed plat for Como
munity Camp Secretary Bob Belo
isle said Saturday The plat will
be presented to the commission nexii
Friday Jan 15 1
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